Showing posts with label mortgage refinance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mortgage refinance. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 3, 2019

What Happens When % Rates Go Even Lower?

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The Mortgage Corner FRED The NAR’s pending home sales index was softer than expected in July, thereby reversing nearly all o...
Friday, June 14, 2019

How Strong is 2019 Housing Market--Part II?

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The Mortgage Corner FRED We asked just how strong is the housing market last month with interest rates beginning to fall again...
Monday, February 20, 2017

Why Such Restrictive Mortgage Lending?

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The Mortgage Corner Earlier this month, researchers at the Urban Institute’s Housing Finance Policy Center published some of their rese...
Thursday, July 28, 2016

Home Sales, Consumer Confidence Still Rising

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The Mortgage Corner Sales of newly built, single-family homes rose 3.5 percent in June from an upwardly revised May reading to a season...
Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Pending Home Sales, Mortgage Applications Soar

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The Mortgage Corner Pending home sales continued to rise in May and are now at their highest level in over nine years , according to the ...
Saturday, April 25, 2015

March New-Home Sales A Dud

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"Sales of new single-family houses in March 2015 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 481,000, according to estimates releas...
Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Mortgage Delinquencies Close to Pre-Recession Lows.

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The Mortgage Corner Calculated Risk reports Black Knight Financial Services (BKFS) released their Mortgage Monitor report for February on...
Thursday, April 2, 2015

Housing In Recovery-Pending Home Sales Soar

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The Mortgage Corner February Pending Home Sales Index, a forward-looking indicator based on contract signings, rose 3.1 percent to 106.9 i...
Thursday, February 26, 2015

January Existing Home Sales, Mortgage Applications Dip

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The Mortgage Corner Oh, the winter freeze! It seems to put the housing market into a deep freeze, as well. Total existing-home sales, comp...
Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Mortgage Refinancings Surging in 2015

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The Mortgage Corner The still record-low interest rates are making a difference. Refinancings jumped 66 percent in January’s first two wee...
Sunday, January 18, 2015

Mortgage Applications Increase Incredible 49 percent in January

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The Mortgage Corner Mortgage applications increased 49.1 percent from one week earlier, said the just released Mortgage Bankers Associatio...
Thursday, January 15, 2015

CFPB Releases Borrower Guidelines

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The Mortgage Corner The Consumer Protection Financial Bureau, set up as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street and Consumer Protection Act, ha...
Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Good Pending Sales, Home Prices in 2015

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The Mortgage Corner Pending home sales are rising again. Sales picked up steam in November, to 104.8 from a revised 104.0 in October for a...
Thursday, October 2, 2014

Employment Up, Interest Rates Falling Again

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Popular Economics Weekly We are still in the Goldilocks economy—it’s not too hot or too cold. In fact, there is enough geopolitical unres...
Thursday, July 24, 2014

Restricted Credit Will Impede Housing Recovery

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Financial FAQs As if we need more evidence that the Consumer Protection Finance Bureau and government regulators have listened to the wron...
Thursday, July 17, 2014

Why Such Low Interest Rates?

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The Mortgage Corner Fixed 30-year conforming interest rates have once again dropped slightly below 4 percent for a 1 pt. origination fee i...
Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Why the Growth Slowdown—It’s Housing, Stupid

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Popular Economics Weekly Dean Baker , a noted economist with the Center for Economic Policy and Research (NEPR), has probably given the be...